The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 02, 1940, Image 1
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l/OLUME 51 . CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1840 NUMBER 45
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rHN K. deLOACfl IS NAMED 1
HEAD CHAMBER COMMERCE
i>rnpy John K. doLoack was
il president, of the Canvden and
,iW County Chamber of Comtit
a meeting of the hoard of
or? held Thursday. Henry G,
on waa named as vice-president
e? Mays ah treasurer. Frank H.
continues as secretary. ' ('
chamber voted to change the
year of the ohamber from the
it calendar year arrangement
re it extend from May 1, to ApOfficers
elected Thursday will
ue In office until April 30, 1941.
jction for an executive secretary
b held the latter part of April,
the Thursday mooting, presided
,y the executive seoretary, Jack
,Bi f. N. MoCorkle and R. M.
5dy, 3rd, were named as a nomg
committee. "This committee
tted the slate of officers elected
? unanimous vote of the board,
jldent deLoaoh has called a
r Besston of the board for Fri^cbruary
2, at 3:30 o'clock at
time he will announce his coms
for the year.
ildent deLoaCh has requested j
llowing members of the cham-'
commerce, to represent the option
at the hearing to be held
a Judiciary committee of the
In the matter of the Intangibles
d punitive damage law at Coon
February 21: Henry Savr..
Henry Q. Carrison, C. J.
>n. Jr., C. J. Shannon 4th, John!
ler, Jr., W. Robin Zemp, Dewey
John T. Nettles, T. Lee Little
iver Rice.
utive secretary Heath of the
er submitted the following ref
the 193& activities:
reviewing the operations of the
er of commerce during the past
feel that the most pertinent
jh to be answered is whether
amber of commerce has grown,
ly may I say that numerically
about the same as a year ago,
e number At members approxlof
the UXal jagg w$h the
-shjp dues within a few per
what was raised In 1938.
nlcally speaking however, the
of commerce has shown
an normal growth. In alludrganic
growth I refer particuthe
Increased activities andi
that have been rendered.'
f our directors, grounded In
rtical experience of p&rticipachamber
activity have often
ne real Inconvenience to do
k assigned to tbem. I am hapnake
public acknowledgment
alluethgrou dmore Cenotmb
cooperation" they havb given
past year has been one In
your association has consolilf>
gains made In the previous
have been in charge as exec'cretary.
I feel that we have
foundation and organized for
service and development.
ie man who knows it best, no
ever accomplishes Its maxiposstbllitles.
No Institution's
entirely satisfies its own offi ecdors
or the general public,
iways has been and always
margins of needs which are
Always snmp phase of the
*eenrs under-nourished, real
ways seem to fall short of
the gap. These conditions
ubtedly more familiar to you
y are to me, but frankly In;
he small budget provided for|
work I feel your chamber of
e has done fairly weM. Its
of work reaches Into every
f the city's life, commercial,
1. educational and civic.
the first obligations of ths
of commerce is, as I see it,
all of the elements of \he enand
county together into one
bodyv working for the uplift
mmunlty. I believe it'must
individuals composing these
the lesson of achievement
cooperation. The chamber
use the citizens from a lethi
quickened interest and aleverywhere
R must preach
1 of^safe. sane and sound det,
unselfishness, public spirit
pride. And right here, let
i all earneatneea that the of>0
chamber of oAttmeece la
housq and We are only too
receive constructIve aoggeshe
helpful In the tmprovehe
chamber's work,
face of advene world con*
* bulwark of tax impoal- ,
bmIoo hae been unahle to
with outside firms Basking to locate I
where they may obtain cheap labor I
and be free of labor agitators. In
nearly every Instance >he tax problem
has proven a handicap which we have
found It impossible to overcome. In
a number of instance* the demand f6r
a bonus, a building or some other concession
has been the cause of a halt
An negotiations.
"In the past several weeks this office
has made three promising contacts
with concerns seeking location
for Industry here, These contacts are
being closely followed and we hope
one or more will come to a successful
conclusion. - v "We
have been active in building
up the good name of Camden throughout
the country. The securing of the
Florida alrcade on two occasions
within a few days' time attracted
much attention to Camden and provoked
much favorable comment. from!
Florida flyers. Air progress Is Just
as certain as night follows day. We
have made the Woodward airport one
of the most talked of in the state.
When we brought the South Carolina
Flyers Club here we made contacts
with every airport manager In the
state and secured a full page of pictures
in American Aviation, the leading,
air magazine of the nation.
On Sunday, December 31, Camden
was called upon to take care of several
hundred flyers fit the airport
here. According ' to. Dexter Martin,
state aeronautical commissioner, between
240 and 250 planes were servvlced
with oil and gas during the
- morning and afternoon. Your chamber
of commerce was asked to coop-)
erate In providing this group of flyers
who came from north central states
with hot coffee and sandwiches. This
part of the program was oared for by.
City Commissioner Nettles and that
it was successfully carried out was In*dicated
by the many compliments acoorded
by the visitors. This same
group made a stop hero for refueling
the following Wednesday and Thursday
and again they were provided
with refreshments.
"We sponsored the cotton festival
again and feel It was a much -flnhlr
spectacle than our 1938 effort. In this
regard may I pay my respects to H.
O. Carrison, chairman of the festival
committee and his group, of workers
for their efforts In making the festival
the success it proved to be.
"Our Christmas program this" yeai
lacked the number of entries that featured
the 1938 affair but we had quality
rather than quantity and the turnout
of spectators quite overshadowed
that of 1938.
"The chamber cooperated in interesting
an alert council to the need of
a revision of traffic and parking conditions
in Camden and today we have
as uptodate a system of parking and
traffic control as can be found in any
community of the country.
"The recent state meeting of the
South Carolina Fox Hunters Association
in Camden, with the field trials
and bench show, was made possible '
by cpntacts made by the chamber
with association officials last spring.
So successful was the Camden meeting
the Association has asked for a
rain check for 1940.
"May I refer to the baseball league
that originated in Camden. It was
a somewhat feeble effort even as an
amateur circuit, but It paved the way
for our rtfal objective, that of a professional
baseball league in the state
and may I say that such a league Is
a possibility next summer. It Is an
interesting fact that Sumter realized
something over $1,000 profit as a result
of the Palmetto State League
program.
"Our road-signing program of last
winter' Was a new venture in advertising,
but It was of enough importance
to attract more than state-wide
attention and'comment. Other resort
communities are utilizing this highway
signing this season.
"Our routing service has been particularly
effective. Quite a number
of Camden people who made extended
motor (rips, several as far as the Paclflc
coast, followed routings that our
service was able to provide and upon
thpir return, made It a point to call
and express to us how splendid the
service had been. . - .
"As our supply (pf Camden booklets
was exhausted we recently placed an
order for a new and improred design i
with the Morrison advertising agency, i
of Milwaukee, this firm submitting the
lowest bid for the work. Hteee book- i
lets are now being printed ead we ex(Contlnaed
on Lest Page)
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Aircade Officer
Praises Camden
President John K. l<eI.<oach, of the
Chamber of Commerce, has received
a letter from Alma Heflin, Chairman
of the Executive Committee, of the
1940 Lightplane Cavalcade, extending
the thanks of the Committee to Camden
for ita wholehearted and unannounced
hospitality upon the occasslon
of the visit of the Cavalcade
here on December 31st and the return
stop ori January 10th.
In her letter to the Camden Chamb-j
er Executive Miss Heflin, who is
identified ltV>'an executive capacity)
with the Piper Aircraf corporation, of
Lock Haven, Pa., expresses regret at
the belated thanks of the committee. |
She states: "You can be sure that wei
appreciate your kindness iu providing
us with a warm place to wail while
our ships were being re-fuelled and
also for the hearty luncheon provided".
Continuing, she states: "Everyone
was wonderfully kind to our tour
all the way but Camden's wholehearted
and unannounced hospitality, was
a pleasant surprise and all the more
welcome because we had not expected
it. Surely some one should have
our individual thanks for conceiving
.the idea and for realising how cold
and hungry we would be, but since I
do not know his or her name, I must
ask that you will pass on our thanks
for us. Our very best regards to you
and to your efficient airi>ort manager."
The placing of Camden on the iti
nerary of the lightplane cavalcade
from north to south was made possible
through the efforts of the cham
ber of commerce, in cooperation with
Dexter C. Martin, state aeronautical
commissioner. The, re-fueling of the
planes was taken care of by R. H.
DeTreville of the Qulf Refining Company,
while refreshments featuring
hot coffee, sandwiches and doughnuts
were dispensed by a committee headed
by Councilman Jack Nettles. The
city of Camden cooperated in every
way and also provided a fire truck
and ambulance which were stationed
in the haiigar in case of emergency.
Mercury Hits New
Low in Community
The old saw that reads, "Whether
it's cold or whether It's hot. we must
have weather, whether or not?" Has
been rather forcibly injected into
Camden life for several weeks past.
For Camden has had wedther that
has been reminiscent of Maine, New
Hampshire. Vermont, Minnesota, and
other States where the mercury
lingers around the zero mark during
the winter months. And snow, well, it
snowed a week ago Tuesday and
there is still lots of the white temalnlng
on mother earth.
As an indication of the temperature
menu Camden has experienced
within the part several days, It is interesting
to note that on Sunday last
at 7 a._m., the thermometer at the water
plant showed 2 degrees above zero.
Last Saturday It was 9 above at
7 a. m., and on Monday of this week
it registered 7 above.
Over thai week-end scores, yes, hundreds
of appeals for plumbing aid
went *Gi'iu when water pipes froze up
and cracked. This was especially
true on Sunday when an upward spurt
of the mercury to 40 degrees, caused
a mild thaw and bingo?the pipes began
to burst.
Coal piles took an awful beating, as
the constant feeding of stoves fairly
melted the black diamond dust. The
same was true of wood piles. Some
householders report their fuel bills already
double what they have been for
entire winter seasons in past years.
Whether there will be a coal shortage
or not still depends on *how long
this weather will keep up.. The fact
that customers oordering & ton of coal
from one dealer Monday morning Wa?
sent only half a ton. Whether all of
the dealers were on the rationing system
we do not know.
Bus schedules were practically on
time over the week end but the
railroad trans were running hours late
?due to snow and cold in the north.
Trains from the south were off schedule
from ten to twenty minutes while
those from the north were running
from 2 to 4 hours behind time.
Sundfcy and Monday hundreds of
people motored to the various lakes
and watched youngsters gliding the
Icy surface. Several men who crooked
holes la the ice on the Boykin pend
sad oleo tm the Hermitage Lake and
Wateree aelU pond sold Che lee woe
about oh fhch ead a half thick.
Monetta-Camden
; In Cage Classic
The basketball classic of the season
in Oauuten as well as of the state,
will be played on the n{ght of Friday,
February 16, when the Catndeu girls
team, with a record of 27 viotories in
the 1989-1940 season plays the Monutta
high school girls, victors in 216
games1 against South Carolina girls
teams and without a defeat. The only
time this Monetta team has tasted defeat
was when a bunch of skyrocket
maidens from Groveland, Florida, ran
them dowu last year.
MonBtta won the Class C title in the
Palmetto state several times and
Camden holds the A title. People
who have witnessed the Monetta. girls
In abtion pronounce them a wonder
team. The same has been said of
the Camden maidens. What will hbppen
when these two teams collide on
the maple floor ia something to ponder
about.
, There is one thing absolutely certain
abouV^Jhe Camden-Monotta clash and
that 1M that the gymnasium walls will
blugeivith the crowd of fans that will
want to witness the game.
On Saturday of this week, the Camden
girls will be motored to Bateaburg-Leesvllle,
where In the evening
they *W- play the Monetta team. The
Camden team will be handicapped in
this^game by reason of having had to
play Darlington Friday night In Camden.
Howeyer, Coach Small of the
Camden team declares his first string
players has not had to play a half
game as yet. For instance, In the
game against Kershaw here last Friday
the drat team ran the score to 32
to 4 In the first quarter and then turned
the execution over to the second
string. The final count waB 61 to 17.
Members of the Camden club will
provide cars to take the girls to Batesburg-Leesville
Saturday.
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Attempted Robbery
At Giis Ward's
t
Three- agencies are Investigating an
attack made on a watchman who
frightened a robber attempting to
break in the Gus Ward restaurant, located
half way between Lugoff and
Blaney In Kershaw county early Tuesday.
A white man had rented a tourist
cottage near the restaurant and
struck the watchman, who was prewar
Tnfc to TOTfsrnrtr. tb&- watchman
waSf^repprted unconscious and the in"fVuder
removed a window glass from
the restaurant In an attempt to gain
entrance. j
By that^'time the watchman recovered
consciousness and opened fire
on the would-be robber, frightening
him from the premises. The watchman
required hospital treatment after
the Incident.
I Sheriff J. H. McLeod Is Investigating
the case fof Kerahaw county.
L. B. Shealey, of the governor's office
and Assistant Investigator J. W.
Richardson of the state patrol yester1
day morning visited the Bcene of the
attack and gained evidence.?Wednesday's
State.
'
Seek Warmth in
PlrtMflaT A rn Fooled
m. < JL M. JL %' JL V/V/l VU
The cold wave caused a number of
tourist to leave Camden to go farther
south and seek warmer temperature
in Florida, but as It developed,, they
ran Into greater discomfort, for the
ordinary accommodations In the Sun
shine State are unprepared for low
temperatures and the cold was. felt
more keenly than In Camden, where
hotels are comfortably heated. Trailer
camp inhabitants In Florida communities
were forced to go to bed
In an effort to keep warm. This was
also true in many of the cottages and
even In the cheaper apartments.
Winter sport activities have been
at a standstill in Camden for over a
week, but the same condition prevails
at Southern Pines, PInehurst,
Augusta and Aiken, other mid-South
resort communities.
The snow will have a compensating
/effect, howpver. In that it still prove
a blessing' to the farmers, increasing
the fertility of the ground.
- The extreme cold weather will, it
la said, kill off much vermin and Insects
destructive to crops and vegetable
life,
Associated Charities Meeting
The adjourned annual meeting of
the Associated Charities will be held
at the Children's Home, lower Fair!
treat o* Friday, February 9, at 4
* "*
Strange Paradox in .
[ The Hotel Camden
two groups of tourists met in tho
Camden hotel Thursday morning,
i One group of six were motor bound
for Florida where they hoped to busk
m the warmth of the sunshine and
the balmy breezes of the seashore of
America's playground.
The other group, strange at it may
seem, was bound from Florida to New
York and the man and wife who were
in tho north-bound car were going to
their home in New York lu order that
they might bask in the warmth of a
steam-heated flat.
And thus, in this winter resort city
of the mid-south was this strange paradox
written. One group of New
Yorkers in a battle with snow drifts
and zero weather seoking to reach
Florida to attain warmth and another
group, who asserted they were fleeing
from the sunshine state to reach their
heated apartment in the Bronx, New
York.
Said the north-bound tourist: "We
went to Daytona the wook aftor
Christmas to spend the remainder of
th ewinter. We were in a small apartment
that was costing us $10 a day.
There was no heat, no provision for
heat and when the temperature went
down into the sub-iroezing readings,
we went to bed to keop warm. We
rented a cottage Just a week ago and
by keeping a sheet iron stove fleeled
witli wood, managed to keep fairly
warm. But when wood sky-rocketed
from $3.00 to $16.00 a load we decided
to go back home.
Said the southbound tourist: "We
drove all night to get here. We came
all the way from Fredericksburg,
Virginia and expected we would find
the Carollnas warm. But there was no
apparent relief. We fought enow drifts!
and cold all the way and we certainly
were glad when we neared Camden
and found only traces of snow. All
along highway no. 1 and particularly
north of a place called Norlina in
North Carolina, the traveling was
bad . with narrow one way traffic
through the deep snow drifts at frequent
intervals. In every city, town
and village we found scores of travelers
hibernating until the weathe**
cleared. Moet of them had had some
tough going on their way south. *
Chamber Group At
Columbia Meeting
- President John deLoach of the
chamber of commerce headed a delegation
of chamber of commerce members
to Columbia on Thursday afternoon
where they api>eared before the
Judiciary committee of the house in
the matter of the hearing upon the
repeal of the intangibles tax and a
change in the punitive damage law.
The Camden delegation was one of
many from all sections of the state
to appear in Columbia to seek relief
from present conditions growing out
of the above named laws.
Those who were in the Camden
group besides President delx>ach were
Attorney Henry Savage, Henry O.
CarriBon, Jack Nettles, Charles Shannon,
4th, Secretary F. H. Heath and
others.
Garrison Named To
Lead Finnish Relief
Iffenry G. Carrison has bean named |
as Kershaw county chairman of the{
Finnish relief activities by Former I
Congressman A. F. ' Ixiver, who is j
state chairman, having been named:
to that office by Former President
Herbert Hoover, who is at the head
of the national Finnish relief program.
w..
Mrs. James R. Porter is the assistant
chairman for Kershaw county. Mtb.
Porter has Just completed a most
successful effort as chairman of the
woman's committee of the President's
ball program.
Announcement of the plans of the
Finnish relief group In Kershaw county
will be made later. It is hoped to
arrange for a series of entertainments
and also a drive to raise funds for the
venture.
Grace Episcopal Church
Services on Sunday at Grace Episcopal
church with Dr. Maurice Clarke
rector, will be aa follows: Holy "communion
at 8:00 a. m., church school
at 9:16 a m.; pre-Lehteh Cbrpomte
communion at 11:16 ?i; m, * ^ ~
Services durtafc the wtoek: Ash
Wednesday, 10:00 * m.; ^children's
service at 8:80 p. m.j Litany at 6:8o:
Thursday night at 8:00 o'clock, dlsonnalon
meeting la pert* bonne; FMday.
f:$0, Utany In the church.
12 Below Zero Here
Back in Year 1899
t
Old residents of Camden assort tho
8 above zero temperature of lust Sunday
waa not a circumstance to the
conditions that prevailed In February.
1899, for on that dutb the mercury
went to 12 below zero. And with the
cold wave a snowfall that covered the
ground to a depth of 12 inches.
Statements in this regard are substantiated
by a story appoaring in
the issue of the weekly Camden
Chronlclo for that week in 1899a*,
The Chronicle gives a graphic description
of the extreme cold wave
and describod how a colored man
named Isuac Ix>ve had both feet frozen
so badly they had to be amputatod.
Ixive was engaged In rolling
wood In a wheelbarrow to stoke the
boilers at Hermitage Cotton Mills?
then known as the Camden Cotton
Mills He stuck to his post while
others quit and his feet became so
numb that he did not know they were
frost-bitten. The operation, which
was successful, was performed by Dr.
John W. Corbett, assisted by Doctors
S. C. Zemp and W. J. Dunn.
The Factory Pond?now known as
Wateree Mill I^ake?waa frozen over
to a depth of more than fou^r Inches.
I^arge orowds gathered on the pond to
see the kids skate. A gentleman by
the name of Stein, from New York,
who was associated with the firm of
Baum Brothers, had a pair of ice
skates, and treated the natives to ^
some fancy ioe skating. Bob Kennedy,
now of the Santee-Coopqr project,
and his brother, Belton, had a pair 0f
billy, goats, hitched to carts and they
too, did Home fancy skating. Wild
tuskeys and deer, quail and other
wild life were found frozen to death.
birds became almost extinct as
a result of that freeze.
Another story in The Chronicle of
February 17, 1899, relates how a
Kershaw resident, exposed to the frlgid
air, was s6 badly frozen that'a
rescuer, in helping to lift him, tugged
at one of his legs, which broke off
like a pipe stem. But this story was
never vouched for.
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Official Weather Record
From November first through January
29, as furnished The Chronicle
by H. A. Brown, who is connected
with the United States weather bureau
is as follows:
In November there were fourteen
days of freezing or below and on November
"22"the' th^rmomefer' rbbbrtrea
22 1-2 degnees. ;
In December there were sixteen?
days that the freezing point or lower
was reached. December 15* the tern- *
perature was 21 degrees.
From the first of January to January
30 there have been twenty-six .....
days of freezing or below recorded.
January 28 the low mark of 8 degrees
above zero was reaohed.
Three snows all during the month
of January is the record so far for
1940.
The rain guage for November 1.66
inches; December 3.29 inches, January
3.63 inches.
COW HA8 TWIN HEIFERS
8. E. Belvin, who lives near the
Pine Tree Farms had the unusual experience
on his farm Wednesday when
a Jersey cow gave birth to twin
heifers.
U. D. C. TO MEET MONDAY
The John D. Kennedy Chapter U. D.
C. will meet on Monday, February 5,
with Mrs, E. C. Von Tresckow at her
home on Green street at 4:00 o'clock.
All members are urged to attend this
meeting.
Mary Jane Boone
Dies In Boonetown
Mary Jane Boone, 81, born,. Decern- ~
ber 12, 1868, in Flatrock township,
Kershaw county, died after an illness
of two years Sunday. She was the
widow of the late Alex Boone.
Funeral services were held at Bethany
Baptist church. Westville, Monday,
January 29, at 11 a.m. Interment
followed in the churchyard. The Rev.
B. A. Davis will be In charge. " ?'
Surviving are three sons. Wesley,
Frank And Henry Boone, all of pear
Boonetown; three daughters, Mrs. '
Nannie Freeman, Camden; Mrs. SalJte
Barrett and Mrs. Jim Ray of Boonetown.
ifa^Boone resided in Camden for
at thaDJartMary m4U,e ber home